The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

God always has patience.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.